Improvement in finger-guards



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'LEVI HOLMES, OF GREENVPOINAT, NEW YORK;

Letters Patent No. 113,519, dated April 11, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN FINGER-GUARDS.

The Schedule referred to in. these Letters Patent and making part ofthe'same.

I, LEVI HOLMES, of Green Point, county of, Kings, State of N ew York,have invented an Improvement in,Finger-(-iruards, of which the followingis a specilication.

Nature and Object of the Invention.

' My invention consists of a guard, too fully described hereafter toneed preliminary explanation, the object of which is to protect the handwhen scissors are used.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing. Figure l is a rear view of myfinger-guard. Figure 2, a side View; Figure 3, a view representing theguard in its position on one of the fingers of the right hand;'and

Figure 4, a plan view of a blank from which the guard may be made. Y

, General Description.

In using scissors for cutting thick or tough materials, or in risingthem continuously for cutting any material, the excessive or constantpressure of the edge of the lower eyelot' the scissors, through whichthe third finger of' the right hand passes,` scores or abrades thefinger, and in time forms thereon a callous rib, ivhichis both unsightlyand painful.

To prevent this I employva guard, A, consisting of an irregular curvedface or shield, a, and a curved band, I), forming with the shield aring, through which the finger inay be inserted, the guard beinggenerally applied to the third Jringer of the right hand, so that whenscissors are used the ring will bear upon the shield instead' of againstthe uger, as usual.

In order that the guard may fit the linger and not I in any wayinterfere with its movement or abrade the same or the adjacent fingers,it is essential, first, that it shall he of a tapering form-in fact thatit shall be of the form of a section of a tapering tube; secondly, thatthe lower edge x of the band b shallbe inclined, as shown in iig. l;and, thirdly, that the shield shall be cut away at the upper inner edgefi, as shown in thedrawing.

The tapering form-of the guard insures the contact of the point of theguard with the finger when the latter is bent, and 4prevents the guardfrom catching in the cloth or other material being cut.

The lower edge x of the band b is inclined to prevent' it from indentingthe inner side of the finger, and thereby causing pain tothewearei-while by the cutting away of the shield at i the abrasionofthe adja- In testimony' whereof I have signed my 'name to thisspecification in the presence of two subscribing wit- Witnesses LEVIHOLMES.

SAML. D. CLARK,- ALFRED E. BARLo'W.

